Hi, I think this is a great extension. Just to make sure that I understood correctly: This extension allows to install more than one wiki using different databases on a single server, using the same source code?! Cheers
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That is right. It's not the only extension like that, there are at least two more, see Category:Wiki farm. Extension:WikiFarm though seems to have documentation in Russian only and Extension:Farmer requires changes on the MW code, also it has been reported broken quite often. Just read the documentation of Simple Farm and then you still need to use some rewrite rules on your web server, so all web-requests to the particular wikis are getting re-directed to the one MediaWiki installation with Simple Farm inside.
Cool. Heaps of cudos for you. For the very reasons you mentioned I refrained from using the two alternatives. Since I am not a coder I did not dare to try implementing the drupal-style approach on my own either. This is why I am happy to see this extension come to life. Cheers
What if you are using one database? I see the DB setting for the wiki configurations. Is it actually for a different database or is it just a table prefix?
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Currently the extension does not support $wgDBprefix simply because I did not need it (I prefer one DB per wiki). Would not be too hard to implement this I guess.